RE: Education (Was Re: Techwriting After the Boom)

["Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>]

John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> wrote:
>
>Mark...I don't agree. I think what you mean by abstraction, I think of
>extraction. I can teach something in the abstract without ever relating it
>to a concrete.
>
>Isn't that the whole idea behind any of the theoretical sciences? 
>

No, John. Hypothesis, analysis, synthesis. In that order. See, if you'd taken more liberal arts courses, you'd remember that. <gdrlh>

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